How can you tell what gender a parakeet is without getting it professionally checked?

Question

I just got two parakeets and all is well but i really wanna know what their gender is. When I first when to the pet store the lady said in a few months I have to take it to the vet and ask a pro but the second time a went a couple hours later a different guy guessed on what it would be so I think there might be a way to tell. Does anyone one know how to tell the gender??

Answer 1

ya i myself have 16 parakeets. you have to look at the colors of their ceres (noses!). females have beige or brown ceres. males have pink, purple, or blue nosies, depending on what type of parakeet they are. but girls always have tannish ceres.

p.s. if they are babies they will only have white colored ones. congrats on the new birds!

Answer 2

There's a lot of rumors going around about parakeets sexing. It is true that most birds can't be sexed just by appearance. Only a few birds, like chickens, have external genetalia, so I'm afraid looking underneath does no good. You can't be sure of the bird's sex until it is mature. Depending on how old it was when you got it, that should be within the first year you have it. Mostly the males have a blue cere (the bit with the nostrils), and mostly females have a sort of whitish brownish thing. Sexually mature females will have their cere turn an intense brown color several times a year to indicate they are ready to mate. This does not happen to males and is a pretty sure sign. Sometimes if a bird is pied (that is, a blend of colors), a male bird could have a cere that looks whitish brown like a female. The difference is that it won't change color to indicate mating status. You can get kits to have your bird sexed. Basically you take a very tiny blood sample and send it off. I advise you to get several kits, and send them all off. Some of these labs basically make up their results, so pretend you are sending the blood from 3 different birds and see if the results are the same. Good luck! If you need this info for breeding, just consider this before you do: THERE IS NO SHORTAGE OF PARAKEETS. There is a shortage of good homes for them. I don't wanna discourage you, but I'm all for thinking things through first.

Answer 3

When a parakeet, also known as a budgie, is a baby, it is difficult to tell males from females. An experienced breeder can often tell, but a person with a companion parakeet and little experience will have a hard time.

When the 'keet is about 6 months old, the ceres, which is the area where the nostrils are located, will begin to either turn blue (for boys) or a tannish pinkish, sometimes brownish color in females.

Answer 4

("When a parakeet, also known as a budgie, is a baby, it is difficult to tell males from females.")


This isn't true... all small "common" parakeets are known as Budgerigars or "budgies." They are called this because the little parakeets you see in the pet store going for between 10-20 dollars are not the only kind of parakeet out there. There are a vast variety of larger parakeets such as a "mustach parakeet," " Rose-ringed Parakeet ," "The Monk Parakeet," my personal favorite the "Lineolated parakeet," the list goes on.

As far as sexing if you take it to your local avian vet or even a pet store with a bird specialist they can SHOW you exactly what to look for when determining gender. Because the colors of the cere vary from bird to bird it is almost impossible for a begginer to tell a light blueish purple from a dark pinkish brown. Some of them look extremely similar even in opposite sexes.

"In general, the color of a budgie's cere is the simplest indicator of sex in adult budgies: males are blue, and females are white, light beige, reddish, or brown. While it is fairly accurate, the color of the cere cannot always be used to sex a budgie. With some color varieties, like albinos, lutinos, fallows, and some recessive pieds like harlequins, both males and females have beige or pink colored ceres. Other visual sexing methods include females having an almost invisible, whitish rings around their nostrils, and males having more rounded, bulbous ceres, both of which are often hard to recognize to the untrained eye. And many people also say that females bite harder than males and that males have rounder heads while females heads are more flat on the top. "

Answer 5

What type of parakeet? Do you mean a budgie?
If its' a budgie, in a mature bird (over 6 months of age) the cere (area just above the beak and below the face feathers) will show beige or brown in a female, and blue or purplish blue in a male.
Hope this helps !
PS You can't use this method to sex baby budgies.

Answer 6

Male has a blue cere, female has white or brown cere. The cere is located at the top of the beak. The female's turns brown when she is ready to mate.

Answer 7

look at the cere(coulour above the beak) if it is bluish it's a boy and if it is a tan colour it's a girl.

Answer 8

Females have the pink and white noses and males have blue noses.

Answer 9

check their nose

blue = male, brown = female